The organisation’s chairman, Ulric Warner, in response said, “The percentage of people who can literally read and write and who are in significant positions in this organisation...we have to be careful with it.”

The committee also heard from the Warner that upon the instillation of the new board it was discovered that training in critical roles were in dire need in the areas of human resource and at the supervisory level.

“There was no one in the internal audit function...the internal audit was not done for years. In terms of HR, there was no one with any significant HR training. In terms of procurement...there was nothing in procurement...procurement was, ‘I know you and you can deliver so I will give you the job to do.

“So we had to get the right kinds of staff and we spent time in seeking to get that kind of staff,” Warner said.